id
	12732
Url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/12732
Modèle de ressource
	Journal article
Classe de ressource
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Titre
	Reinterpreting the Role of Muslims in the West African Middle Ages
Sujet
	history of Africa
	Sahel
	Islamic cleric
	empire
Editeur
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/25145
Date
	2020
Type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8475
Identifiant
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116295165 Q116295165
	iwac-reference-0000232
Langue
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8322
Résumé
	Recent research points to a renewed scholarly interest in the West African Middle Ages and the Sahelian imperial tradition. However, in these works only tangential attention is paid to the role of Muslims, and especially to clerical communities. This essay tackles theoretical and historiographical insights on the role of African Muslims in the era of the medieval empires and argues that the study of Islam in this region during the Middle Ages still suffers from undertheorizing. On the contrary, by using a ‘discursive approach’ scholars can unravel access to fascinating aspects of the history of West African Muslims and in particular to the crucial role played by clerical communities, who represented one node of the web of diffused authority which is characteristic of precolonial West African social and political structures.
Couverture spatiale
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/540
Liste des auteurs
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1705
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853720000584 10.1017/S0021853720000584
Numéro
	3
Dernière page
	340
Première page
	327
Volume
	61

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